Daily Archives: June 4, 2012

Swansea, Norwich City and QPR all did themselves proud in the 2011/2012 Premier League season by managing to avoid relegation after gaining promotion in the previous campaign, but will any of them catch a case of 2nd season syndrome?

Second season syndrome is the now-common phrase that is used to describe a downturn in fortunes for a football club two seasons after its promotion to the Premier League of English football – particularly if the first season after promotion had brought a strong finish.

Here are a few examples over the years of 2nd season syndrome and the teams that have been affected by it:

Football pundits like to argue about which silverware is worth chasing. Which is more valuable. Is the Premiership title the top of the heap? Is success in the Champions League the true goal of every elite club? Does the FA Cup even matter? Well we can answer one of those questions. The FA Cup does matter. It matters to Chelsea and matters even more to Bradford City. In a stunning shocker Bradford took down CFC by a final of 4-2 which left football fans across the world scratching their heads. We included a clip of the goals from this historic fixture and we hope you enjoy it more than Jose Mourinho – did. We are always looking for bloggers for our site so if you have something to see about the Premier League shoot us an email @ [email protected]. For all your Premiership updates – join us on our Twitter handle @ Getrealpremierc.

As we head into the new year, at Get Real Premier we decided to give our readers a special treat. Check out this YouTube video of the top 5 goals of 2014 for the Premier League. Here’s hoping it can only get better in 2015. Tweet us @getrealpremierc and tell us what your favorite goal of 2014 was.

We all know how successful the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge was and witnessed it going viral. Some of us were even challenged and has fun being part of this amazing experience. While checking out YouTubeEPL videos we came across videos by 442oons. You have to check out this hilarious Ice Bucket Challenge football player video and all the other videos by 442oons.

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Lionel Messi of FC Barcelona performs an overhead kick under a challenge by Nicolas Otamendi of Valencia CF during the La Liga match between FC Barcelona and Valencia CF at Camp Nou on April 18, 2015 in Barcelona, Catalonia.

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